After heavy mourning in connection with the tragedy in Tempe, all his scheduled meetings SYRIZA have been postponed. The presentation of the first home protection program is postponed to next week, and the invitations of the authorities to Pavlos Polakis will take place at another time. After all, it is assumed that the causes of the national railway tragedy will come out in political pre-election debates, but “not during mourning,” as Kumunduru emphasized. The extremely unpleasant speech gave the Chania MP some more time to consider his next steps before he appears before the Political Secretariat.

At the meeting of the enlarged executive office on Tuesday, the hard line taken by the leaders shows that the Chania MP’s “joint walk” with SYRIZA is over. His non-voting is a matter of course, and many leaders consider this the main problem at the moment. The fact that he will not be in the plenary hall at the next parliamentary session means cutting the umbilical cord and the relationship he created with the party and personally with Alexis Tsipras.

Two approaches

Now the question is what will happen to the party affiliation of Mr. Polakis. No one can predict what position he will take when he is in the highest body to give explanations. This is a “second chance”, but without much chance of changing the climate. Either expulsion or suspension of his party status for a certain period of time is very difficult to avoid, say those familiar with the heavy atmosphere prevailing in Kumundura. The ethics committee has the last word, and all leaders know that the first “punishment” is tantamount to “party death”, but given the way things have turned out, this cannot be ruled out. A compromise solution is suspension from party membership for up to one year. It is a difficult balance, and it was seen in the Executive Office meeting that the consequences that two different approaches can have on the world of SYRIZA will be “weighed”.

Argument N.D.

Several people in Komundura believe that the events that will “flow” in the next period with Pavlos Polakis will eliminate the main argument of the “New Democracy” – his identification with Alexis Tsipras. Even PASOK referred to the “protective umbrella” that the President of SYRIZA opened several times for the MP of Chania to exclude possible cooperation from the government. Leaders generally believe that the grievances voiced during this period by some members of Polakis’ marginalization base will be absorbed on the way to elections. The question that Koumoundourou didn’t answer is the timing of the break with SYRIZA, chosen by Pavlos Polakis.